Stephen J. Whitfield
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View article: American Jews Face the Ku Klux Klan, 1865–2025
American Jews Face the Ku Klux Klan, 1865–2025 Open
The hostility that the Ku Klux Klan exhibited toward Jews and other minorities (Blacks, Catholics, immigrants) has long attracted the scholarly interest of American historians. They have shown virtually no interest in the ways in which Ame…
View article: Gold Standard
Gold Standard Open
The subjects of these two books basically belonged to the same generation. Philip Rahv (1908–73) and Michael Gold (1894–1967) shared origins in the Jewish lower class, and rose to literary prominence during the Great Depression. But from t…
View article: Freedom at the Center
Freedom at the Center Open
Of course it's brilliant. The Free World represents the hugely ambitious culmination of the efforts of a scholar of exceptional talent to explicate mid-century American culture, and to put it within a broad political and social context. Wi…
View article: The Pentagon Papers as History
The Pentagon Papers as History Open
This article examines the most consequential Constitutional case in American history regarding the right of the press to expose the origins of a war – while it was still being fought. The crisis of the early summer of 1971 was unprecedente…
View article: LAYERING THE SENSES: EXPLORING AUDIO PRIMACY IN MULTI SENSORY CINEMA
LAYERING THE SENSES: EXPLORING AUDIO PRIMACY IN MULTI SENSORY CINEMA Open
This is an accepted manuscript of a paper published by the Institute of Acoustics in Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics on 22/11/2021.
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View article: Smallholder farmers’ innovation systems in climate-smart agriculture: Interview findings from Tanga Region, Tanzania
Smallholder farmers’ innovation systems in climate-smart agriculture: Interview findings from Tanga Region, Tanzania Open
This Info Note summarizes the findings of 228 interviews with smallholder farmers participating in two CSA interventions in Tanga Region, Tanzania. The study examines how agricultural innovation happens in the context of CSA interventions,…
View article: Rapid Climate Risk Assessment for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Region
Rapid Climate Risk Assessment for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Region Open
This rapid climate risk assessment for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) uses the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2014 risk analysis framework to assess the distribution of climate hazards and social and bio…
View article: A Poet Illumines the Pandemic
A Poet Illumines the Pandemic Open
In homage to Dr. Denis Mukwege A Poet Illumines the Pandemic The title of W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” might seem to require that this poem be time-bound rather than timeless. He composed it at the end of what the first sta…